The Race Card; The Fairy Tale

I have always been very suspicious of people who are outraged over the suggestion of the possibility that some bias based on ethnicity continues to exist in this country in the year 2008. Now, we have a mixed-race presidential candidate who has gone out of his way to steer attention away from his mixed-raceness to keep that from clouding campaign issues. The possibility that that effort has been a frustration to his former prime Democratic opponent during the Primary season and now to his elder-statesman Republican opponent during this General-election campaign is not too far fetched, in my opinion. During the Primary season, we saw the preemptive accusation that the Obama campaign was injecting race into the campaign. And now the McCain campaign is doing the same thing, saying Obama is playing the so-called "Race Card." (By the way, that's an odious term that came out of the OJ-trial era. It was picked up by the local L-A media and now it is used adnauseum to distill reaction to racial injustice to a simple game of cards. I'm insulted everytime the term is used. It minimizes hundreds of years of racial injustice.) Insidiously, by accusing Obama of injecting race into the campaign, that accusation in itself injects race into the campaign. It's hard to believe that the McCain campaign and the former operatives of Karl Rove that now work for it have not considered the possibility that people will use skin color as a criteria after entering the voting booth. Maybe, they're counting on it. Maybe, that's what former PresidenClinton was refering to after the South Carolina primary when he made reference to "a fairy tale." Was that some innate understanding and maybe frustration that no matter how qualified Barack Obama is, not enough of the American majority will vote for him to allow him to win office? One thing is certain, we will have the answer to all questions after Election day.